Mixed fortunes for Jumbo-Visma in Critérium du Dauphiné time trial

ROCHELAMOLIERE FRANCE JUNE 02 Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen of Denmark and Team Jumbo Visma during the 73rd Critrium du Dauphin 2021 Stage 4 a 164km Individual Time Trial stage from Firminy to RochelaMolire 585m ITT UCIworldtour Dauphin dauphine on June 02 2021 in RochelaMoliere France Photo by Bas CzerwinskiGetty Images
Jonas Vingegaard was the best finisher in the TT for Jumbo-Visma, seventh on stage 4 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

As the Critérium du Dauphiné heads into more hilly and then mountainous country, Jumbo-Visma find themselves without a rider in the top 10 following the stage 4  time trial between Firminy and Roche La Molière, but with leaders Steven Kruijswijk and Sepp Kuss by no means out of the contention for overall victory.

Kruijswijk, who now sits in 13th place, 40 seconds down on race leader Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe), said he was expecting “a little bit more” from himself in the 16.4km test. 

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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